In 2022, the Democrats Biggest Enemy is Voter Revulsion
Democrats haven’t grasped this yet, but it’s too late for them. The die is cast. An electoral bloodbath awaits next year, akin to or surpassing what happened to their party in 2010.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s and the Squad’s anti-American leftist politics drive their party, and that’s beginning to register at a gut-level with voters. What voters – critically, that big, pivotal segment known as independents – now feel is revulsion for Democrats in not just one way but many. The intensity of that revulsion is bound to grow in the coming months.
How do we know that? In the first 10 months of the Biden presidency, we went from a functioning country recovering from needless Covid lockdowns to a nation suddenly skidding downhill. Do we believe that we haven’t seen the worst of Biden’s inept governance and congressional Democrat incompetence, extremism, and corruption? 2021 will only prove a prelude.
Democrats are ensnared in hubris, and have boxed themselves into corners. Ideological corners. Policy corners. Governance corners. Interest group corners. Cultural corners. Integrity and corruption corners. An unabated lust for power dominates their appetites.
Starting on January 20 – shortly after Biden was sworn in and began robotically signing executive orders – voters witnessed failure after failure, with energy costs and inflation climbing; supply chains bogging down; an evaporating southern border and floods of illegals; needless defeat and retreat in Afghanistan; a draconian vax mandate; urban homicides and crime exploding; cancel culture employed as a threat and cudgel; boondoggle spending and proposals by a Democrat Congress; parents branded “domestic terrorists” by the U.S. attorney general; and, as Thomas Lifson pointed out, the spreading realization that Democrats hid Biden in his Delaware basement in 2020 because he really is decrepit and daft.
The moderation and bringing Americans together trope that Biden mouthed was a come-on, part of a confidence racket to persuade suburbanites – particularly suburban women – that there’d be no significant departures from Trump’s generally solid policies and governance – except his handling of Covid, which, claimed Biden’s ventriloquists, Trump failed to defeat. Biden averred that he’d shepherd the country out of the “dark winter” of Covid back into the light.
Instead, Biden and Democrats pimped fear and have diligently tried to force compliance with mask and vax mandates – after Biden publicly foreswore both. Reality and science were eschewed – the latter twisted and subordinated to serve Democrats’ political ends. Natural immunity is given short shrift, if at all. Biden made unquestioning obedience and threats of job loss and ostracization cornerstones of his Covid policy – a policy his administration is still pressing stubbornly.
In reaction, tens of thousands of Americans are quitting or boycotting their jobs, further putting strains on systems – including healthcare and public safety – and the economy.
With each passing day, “battling” Covid for public health’s sake appears for what it is: a shabby pretext. Democrats’ impulse – on full display – is authoritarianism on the way to modern totalitarianism… something akin to China’s evil social credit system is gestating. Citizens are seeing this and viscerally rejecting this decidedly anti-American gambit.
The election contests were close in Virginia and New Jersey, you say? Were Democrats really slapped down? The fact is that elections in blue-trending Virginia and deep blue New Jersey had no business being close.
In New Jersey, Phil Murphy’s bullying governance, his misfeasance in consigning Covid-sick seniors to nursing homes, resulting in the deaths of thousands of seniors, and shuttering his state’s economy made him damaged goods. If Murphy holds on to the governorship, it’s by the skin of his teeth – thanks to Democrat votes trickling in conveniently late.
Had Murphy governed closer to how sensible red state governors ran affairs would his job have been even remotely imperiled?
Terry McAuliffe’s missteps have been broadly publicized. Suffice it to say, McAuliffe assumed that his nomination was tantamount to election, failed to check his mouth, and, most tellingly, mulishly stuck by teachers’ unions and school boards in the face of mounting parent backlash to toxic Critical Race Theory and parent outrage at two sexual assaults at public schools. One by a boy in a skirt raping a girl in a school restroom. Initially, both assaults were denied by the Loudoun County school superintendent. The illusion of “gender fluidity” mattered more to the woke or cowed superintendent than the brutal reality of rape. Sane Virginians rebelled.
As Marley’s ghost was chained to his sins, Democrats – McAuliffe being the exemplar – are chained to special interests and militant “gimmie” voter blocs.
Finally, McAuliffe had no choice. Had he sided with Virginia parents over teachers’ unions and extremist school boards, he risked blowing up important parts of his coalition. So, he stayed true to his coalition and lost. Other Democrat candidates should take note, but won’t can’t. Expect more poison pill choices for Democrat candidates in other states next year.
For Democrats, 2022 will boil down to attempting damage control, up and down ballots. But there aren’t enough months in the year and hours in a day to execute a volte-face that persuades voters that Democrats aren’t who they’ve revealed themselves to be. The masks dropped this year, and voters in blue states in off-year elections responded with disgust. Then there’s the near-epic Biden incompetence and failure mentioned earlier that needs factoring in. Imagine the blowback coming in purplish and light red and blue jurisdictions next autumn?
Rest assured, Democrats and the left are implacable. While they’ve sown the seeds of their own destruction, they’re still a dangerous force, and patriots can’t let down their guards. In fact, efforts to defeat them must redouble.
Democrats and their coalition partners fought fiercely and cunningly in 2020 to wrest the presidency away from Donald Trump. As their fortunes become poorer, their desperation may drive them to extremes. For these cohorts, power isn’t just a means, it’s their god… it’s their alpha and omega.
What Americans want is what Democrats used to claim they wanted: a nation of true equality – equality of opportunity, not result (certainly not the theft called “equity”). Americans still believe in the ideal born with this republic that all of us should be weighed based on merit, not superficialities. Most citizens definitely reject being pitted against one another based on skin color, race, religion, national origin, and whatever else Marxist-steeped Democrats can leverage or concoct to divide and conquer.
What Americans desire is what Virginia voters have chosen. This January, sworn into the commonwealth’s highest offices, will be a white man, black woman, and Hispanic man. All Republicans, no less. What do these three soon-to-be officeholders share in common? A vison of America where superficialities are dismissed and our common humanity is acknowledged… where we strive to achieve a common good... where we aim to live together peacefully and productively as Americans.
We know this won’t ever be accomplished perfectly, but we aspire to do it well, thereby bequeathing to the next generation of citizens a better country.
Equality and a common good are emphatically American ideals, and darn worth working toward in this and every generation to come. The other – the division and conflict peddled by Democrats – is worth no more than our revulsion.
Photo credit: Biden speaks after the G20 summit (edited by Andrea Widburg in befunky). YouTube screen grab.
J. Robert Smith can be found regularly at Gab @JRobertSmith and occasionally on Parler, again @JRobertSmith. He also blogs at Flyover.
Nolte: 11 Reasons Democrats Are In Real Trouble
Democrats and their corrupt media allies will blame what they always blame for Tuesday night’s devastating losses: racism and poor communication. Well, they might be able to convince themselves of that in Virginia, where Critical Race Theory was a key issue, but…
Why is a Republican this close to winning the governorship in New Jersey, where culture issues were not on the table? Why did left-wing referendums in deep-blue cities like Minneapolis fail by wide margins? Why is deep blue Seattle’s new city attorney a Republican, and one who won by a 59 to 41 percent margin?
BRIDGEWATER, NEW JERSEY – NOVEMBER 02: New Jersey Republican gubernatorial candidate Jack Ciattarelli greets supporters in a hotel ballroom at his watch party on November 02, 2021 in Bridgewater, New Jersey. The race between Ciattarelli and his Democratic incumbent Phil Murphy was too close to call by the end of the night. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
Democrats are in real trouble, and here’s why…
- The Establishment Media Can No Longer Manipulate Public Opinion
After five years of whoring out their credibility to take Trump down, a majority of voters no longer trust the media to tell them the truth. Over and over, the media have been caught in audacious lies. On top of that, the media are bubbled, arrogant, and out of touch.
The public is now wise to the media’s gaslighting techniques, and New Media makes it impossible for the fake media to hide real news.
It was New Media that exposed the Critical Race Theory that’s poisoning our schools. It was New Media that broke the Loudon Country School Board scandal. It was New Media that made it impossible for the fake media to pretend “parental rights” is code for racism or that Critical Race Theory “isn’t real.”
- COVID Exposed the Travesty of Government-run Schools
Nothing opened the eyes of Independent voters and suburban moms more than the unnecessary closing of government-run schools at the behest of far-left teachers unions.
On top of the inconvenience of having your kids home all day came the horror of watching their children disintegrate intellectually and socially. Worse still, as private schools and red-state schools opened with no problem, parents finally got a real look at the left-wing monsters in charge of their children’s education.
Then came the horror of Critical Race Theory.
There is no place a leftist is happier than in that influential spot between parent and child. But when you are hurting their children by teaching them racism, closing schools for no reason, and forcing them into masks you are constantly caught not wearing; parents strike back.
- Woke Blacklisting
The media and Democrat party have whole-heartedly embraced left-wing McCarthyism, and decent people don’t like it. Decent people do not want people destroyed over their ideas, opinions, or something they might have said five years ago. It’s un-American and obscene.
Worrying about pronouns while gas and food prices explode is pure lunacy.
Remake Pronouns 101
What’s more, in the closing days of the Virginia election, Democrats and the media proved just how extreme and out of touch they are by launching a campaign to shame people as vulgar racists over “Let’s go, Brandon.”
- Joe Biden Is a Failed President
The economy is slowing, gas prices are up more than a dollar a gallon, inflation is at record highs, the southern border is wide open to any unvaccinated illegal who wants in, violent crime is up, the virus continues to rage, and hundreds of Americans are still trapped in Afghanistan…
US President Joe Biden speaks on the American Jobs Plan, following a tour of Tidewater Community College in Norfolk, Virginia on May 3, 2021. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
- Joe Biden Moved to the Far Left
This is something that doesn’t get enough attention. During the 2020 campaign, as his party sought to defund the police, open our borders, cheer on race riots, and blacklist everyone who strayed from the woke plantation, Biden posed as the rational alternative to Trump.
But once Biden got into office, he moved to the left of even Obama on every conceivable issue—from trans voodoo to insane spending to open borders to strangling our energy sector.
Public whiplash was key to last night’s expression of buyer’s remorse.
- Democrats Ignore Needs of Voters
While inflation, gas prices, and violent crime soar; while unvaccinated illegal aliens swarm; while schools destroy kids by teaching racism and forcing them into masks, while people are fired for refusing to get vaccinated, the Democrat party is obsessing over Trump, carbon, and pronouns.
A pedestrian walks past gas station fuel prices above $5 and $6 per gallon at Death Valley National Park in June 17, 2021 in Furnace Creek, California. – Much of the western United States is braced for record heat waves this week, with approximately 50 million Americans placed on alert Tuesday for “excessive” temperatures, which could approach 120 degrees Fahrenheit (50 degrees Celsius) in some areas. The National Park Service warns of extreme summer heat, urging tourists to carry extra water and “travel prepared to survive” in the hottest, lowest, and driest national park featuring steady drought and extreme climates. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
- Donald Trump Was Not a Factor
Blacklisting the former president from social media was the dumbest thing the organized left ever did. I’m convinced that if Trump still had access to his Twitter feed, instead of losing to Republican Glenn Youngkin by a handful of points, Democrat Terry McAuliffe would’ve won by a few points.
If Trump runs for president in 2024, I’ll crawl over broken glass to support and vote for him. But there’s no denying he turns off a lot of Independent voters and animates Democrats.
Trump was a great president and one capable of great charm. He is also responsible for bringing the issues to the fore that turned the GOP into a true force and injecting it with the spine necessary to ignore and dismiss the fake media. But his brutal honesty, his bombast, and his childish need to make everything about him does indeed make everything about him, including elections.
Well, this election was not about him. It was about local issues involving crime and schools and mandates and taxes. Democrats stink on those issues, and Trump was not available to cover up that stink.
- Calling Everyone Racist
Turn on the news right now and see it for yourself. As I write this, the establishment media and Democrats are accusing everyone who voted against them of racism. Their ludicrous reasoning is that the issue of “parental rights” is racism. Therefore, opposing Critical Race Theory is racism. No, wait… Believing Critical Race Theory is real is itself racism.
Thankfully, they have learned nothing.
- Democrats are Beholden to the Far Left
This is the biggest problem for Democrats. The killjoy fascists in the woke/trans/defund-the-police/Critical Race Theory wing of the party now own the party. And the party did this to themselves.
No one forced Democrats to smear the working class — who were once the backbone of their party — as racists.
- No Bullpen
Biden was the last politician the Democrats had who could credibly run as a moderate and not terrify Independents, and he’s nowhere near capable of running again in 2024.
- Arrogance
Democrats and their media allies have stopped hiding their smug disdain for everyday people.
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